The proliferation of peripheries: Militarized drones and the reconfiguration of global space

TY - JOUR

T1 - The proliferation of peripheries

T2 - Militarized drones and the reconfiguration of global space

AU - Akhter, Majed

PY - 2019/2/1

Y1 - 2019/2/1

N2 - By situating drones in a lineage of colonial technologies of pacification, the critical literature on militarized drones suggests a revised concept of peripheries and global space. This paper engages this literature to argue for a conception of peripheries as spaces of colonial state power at multiple scales. It does so by arguing for a distinction between proliferation to the global periphery and the proliferation of peripheries at multiple scales and across scattered sites. The paper also draws on Gramsci and Fanon to elaborate an internationalist anticolonial position on the defense of territorial sovereignty of states in the global periphery. © 2017, The Author(s) 2017.

AB - By situating drones in a lineage of colonial technologies of pacification, the critical literature on militarized drones suggests a revised concept of peripheries and global space. This paper engages this literature to argue for a conception of peripheries as spaces of colonial state power at multiple scales. It does so by arguing for a distinction between proliferation to the global periphery and the proliferation of peripheries at multiple scales and across scattered sites. The paper also draws on Gramsci and Fanon to elaborate an internationalist anticolonial position on the defense of territorial sovereignty of states in the global periphery. © 2017, The Author(s) 2017.

KW - Fanon

KW - Gramsci

KW - inter-state system

KW - internationalism

KW - scale

KW - territory

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041541656&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/0309132517735697

DO - 10.1177/0309132517735697

M3 - Article

SN - 0309-1325

VL - 43

SP - 64

EP - 80

JO - Progress in human geography

JF - Progress in human geography

IS - 1

ER -